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| U.S. Tactics Shift To Taking Operatives Alive |
| 2002-12-04 |
| The United States will begin new operations against the al Qaeda network in Yemen after finding evidence of the group's role in last week's bombing of an Israeli-owned hotel in Kenya, a well-informed Yemeni source says. Washington has informed Yemeni authorities of its plans to capture alive suspected al Qaeda members, the source said. Prepare the giggle juice! Thursday's suicide attack on the Paradise Hotel in Mombasa killed 16 persons. An attempt to down an Israeli chartered flight over Kenya failed. After the Mombasa bombing, U.S. Central Forces Command in the Horn of Africa decided to change its tactics in the war on terrorism. According to information from U.S. Navy officers, the United States will carry out pre-emptive strikes against targets in the Horn of Africa, including Somalia, which have become "havens for terrorists and al Qaeda operatives." "Yemen and the United States are coordinating a large-scale attack on suspected al Qaeda members in several Yemeni provinces," said the Yemeni source, who requested anonymity. He said the United States is targeting the provinces of Marib, Shabwah, Jawf and Hudaydah on the Red Sea — all believed to shelter members of Osama bin Laden's terrorist network. The source said he expected a large-scale attack in a few days, and that the upcoming operations were intended to hunt down and capture suspected al Qaeda members instead of killing them. Letting them know we are coming will cause them to get nervous and try to move. Easier to get them on the move. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #4 Anybody else surprised at the speed at which the Marines got deployed to Kenya? Remember, its all about logistics. Getting the men there is one thing, but then you got to have the means to feed them house them and keep them ready with spares and supplies. Apparently, we've got all of that working well enough to drop a whole battalion of Marines and their equipment into central Kenya, one week after the bombing. Not bad......... |
| Posted by: Frank Martin 2002-12-05 02:10:34 |
| #3 having spooked the baddies with Predators, we now wait for the cell phones to light up in panic. I wonder what the Goverment of Yemen gets for all this altruism. |
| Posted by: john 2002-12-05 00:30:04 |
| #2 The Marines have gotten acclimated and their gear prepped. |
| Posted by: Chuck 2002-12-04 14:31:24 |
| #1 "No disintegrations!" |
| Posted by: Tripartite 2002-12-04 14:00:49 |